Dante Cicchetti and Stephen Hinshaw scan how collaborative efforts in the “Prevention and Intervention Sciences” (2002) can do better than the present conditions. Naming diagnoses, specifying developmental processes, discussing psychopathology is not what the article is about. The authors’ interest is bringing our attention to what we know about published studies. Not the studies themselves but the tests. And the not tests themselves but the making of them: how they come together; whose coordinating them; at what costs.
Test subjects are “children, adolescents, and families”, human beings we know and love; they could even be us, who ...